Dominos Pizza?

Now I don't know if this is true elsewhere but Papa Johns and Dominos trucks deliver late at night in my area. It's a good thing though because getting into the store location would be a royal pain with all the traffic. I have to give them and MacLane props for doing their deliveries to places that I wouldn't even try to back a truck into.
(MacLane does the 7-11 deliveries in our area)

 

Because the drivers keep doing it. If they would stop it would change. That's what I can't stand about this industry drivers keep wanting things to change and be safer too but they keep doing it illegal.

 

I think all u need is a ride with insurance.Maybe a gps and a good work ethic to deliver pizza.I guess the tips are good also.

 

Most of our routes at Papa John's were night deliveies, only exception was the Baltimore, MD route, That was a daylight route for a reason.

When I worked for a Wendy's supplier(were I got my foodservice starts), we ran late evening/overnight. Alot easier to get into the stores.

Even now I still run early morning. Like the early starts, alot easier to get into places.

 

When I left Cardnial was getting ready to take over. Not sure how many they got but I know PJ wanted them to take over all as contracts expired.

 

Domino's just runs! (day and night) You have keys to all the stores and I have done route's with 27 stops. The money is why they keep doing it. Get that truck and house note and they're stuck doing whatever Domino's tells them in fear of losing there jobs. Funny thing is, if they want to get rid of you, they won't just fire you. They will do a route surveillance and bust you working in the sleeper. Can you believe that! That's how they get rid of people so that when something happens that puts there policies in question, they have documention showing that they have fired drivers when caught working in the sleeper. It is all set up, you don't have to worry about it if you do what your told.

 

My buddy works for McLane on a Wawa only acct and was trying to get me in there but after two years of him being there he is starting to look like s hit. Sure the short work week and great pay is grand but after he gets home and his wife leaves for work he has to mind the baby. I think that foodservice employment is more of a single persons gig.

Aside. Through my wifes job we get free Papa Johns and only ate that s hit once. Gross. Now we donate the coupons to the food pantry cause that pizza is gruff.

 

We used to do Baltimore out of Rotterdam before they moved the commissary to NJ long ago. Those were actually good runs, because the stores were high volume which equated to less stops overall.

PJ's is just playing Cardinal against WWD. Also, a high ranking transportation official in Louisville is an ex-Cardinal suit. You can see where I'm going with this.

I know that PJ's used the same model from Domino's for distribution, they are almost identical operations. Domino's has more of their ducks in a row and I'm sure is a lot more consistent across the board with their distribution centers. And I do believe the entire fleet is owned/managed by the parent company.

I would be hard pressed to think that they are unaware of the fact that both drivers are working the stops just based on turnaround time. So, in a way, they are smart for firing and documenting occasional drivers stepping outside the "rules". If they are using EOBR's, you can pretty much look at the pieces at a stop and determine whether one guy worked or 2. I couldn't do a 300 piece order solo in less than an hour - if the truck is in and out in 30 minutes, and one guy is logging it, it's obvious both drivers worked.

PJ's, as of a year and a half ago, was doing no such thing, as far as "firing someone for falsification of HOS". in fact, they used to doctor the e-logs office side and keep everything neat and tidy. They used XATA, and you can do edits and then have a driver "sign off" on it after everything looks good. They may have cleaned it up since, but I doubt it. When you take a team fresh in from a 28 hour run to Mobile Alabama, and send them to Jacksonville, it's pretty obvious that HOS are being compromised.

When the "pizza wars" are going on (those $10 pies you see on TV), volume spikes and the runs blow out, and guys run their tails off. The money is good, and everybody gets greedy.

It is. Your buddy is going to either bite the ditch at work, or something is going to go horribly wrong when he's snoring and the baby is getting into something. Kind of a double gamble, actually. I hope at least he's a young buck. When you run that hard and unload your own stuff, you have to get some rest somewhere along the way.

It's certainly not quality sleep in the bunk of a truck, like the suits think so.

 

I keep thinking about how Dominos and papa johns get away with treating their drivers the wy they do. The only answer i can come up with is money. They save it by pushing us and we make by letting them. People have been hurt and killed running this way, but the company doesn't care because it cost more to put more trucks and trailers on the road then it does to pay off a family or two.

 

Well, if you don't mind mgnt that has no clue, come work here in southern ca. You will recieve no respect. get used to running illlegally, because they route the routes for profitability, you wont have time to take brakes, you will mark them down like you took one, but have to work through them. how else will you be able to unload 22,500 lbs, do 11 stops and drive 160- 170 miles+......funny thing, they were just sued for that......still havent paid out on the lawsuit they lost, and continue on doing the same old thing.

and forget about thier longer 2 person routes,.

or maybe you might like to get back from your 12-13hr route, and have to jump on another truck and go right back out cause someone called in sick....but its ok, you wont have to drive.

if they load up too much dough so it wont fit in the refrigerated area....no worries...they will just load it out back with all the dry product....but shhhhh dont let the inspectors fron ann arbor know....infact when the inspectors are at the werehouse....they wait till they leave before they will load dough in the dry area.

there is sooo much more....but think about it, why would you loose over 15 driver in the last couple years...3 in the last 2 weeks (including me) in this economy, in a job that pays 80,000 + a year